{"id":12165,"date":"2011-05-19T14:38:59","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T21:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/05\/19\/iran-will-have-to-fix-weak-points-suzuki\/"},"modified":"2011-05-19T14:38:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T21:38:59","slug":"iran-will-have-to-fix-weak-points-suzuki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/05\/19\/iran-will-have-to-fix-weak-points-suzuki\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran will have to fix weak points: Suzuki"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\">AFC &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran will have to improve its facilities, &#8216;group flow&#8217; and match <\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 10px; float: right;\" title=\"Tokuaki Suzuki (L) and Aziz Mohammadi.\" alt=\"Tokuaki Suzuki (L) and Aziz Mohammadi\" src=\"http:\/\/images.the-afc.com\/afc\/inside_afc\/others\/300x200\/tokuaki_suzuki_aziz_mohammadi_3x2.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"300\" \/><strong>attendance counts to qualify for the next edition of the Asian  Champions League (ACL), AFC\u2019s Director of Competitions and Professional  Football Project Tokuaki Suzuki has said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Speaking at the press conference Monday held in conjunction with the  AFC\u2019s Special Mission Team\u2019s (SMT) visit to Iran to help the country  qualify for the premier continental club competition, Suzuki said: <\/p>\n<p> \u201cThere will be a couple of things which are Iran&#8217;s weak points. Most of  all, we will re-assess the facility part and I look forward to seeing  any improvements in this aspect. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecondly, we will check the flows of the respective groups such as players, officials, media, fans and VIP. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThirdly,  it seems that Iran still can&#8217;t produce an accurate figure for match  attendances. We will see how the clubs are doing the attendance counts. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis  inspection by the SMT will be very critical for Iranian football since  Iran shall fail to meet the criteria if any of the items does not meet  the criteria set by the AFC. Therefore, I would like to stress the  significance for the clubs, league and federation to meet the criteria,\u201d  said Suzuki.<\/p>\n<p>During the opening ceremony of the inspection  visit, Iran Pro League President Aziz Mohammadi welcomed all the AFC  delegation members to the south Asian nation and was delighted that Iran  had made a big progress and improvement since the AFC\u2019s inspection in  2010.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, there would be still a few criteria which we may  not meet and we would be happy to follow up on them and finally meet all  the criteria set by the AFC,\u201d he promised.<\/p>\n<p>Suzuki thanked the  hosts for the warm reception and hospitality and congratulated them for  two Iranian clubs which had qualified for the R-16 of the current  edition of the ACL.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope that both teams can do a good performance for a qualification to the next round,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Foolad  Mobarekeh Sepahan and Zobahan have both progressed to the R-16 and are  set to clash with Bunyodkor (UZB) on May 24 and Al Nassr (KSA) on May 25  respectively.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran will have to improve its facilities, &#8216;group flow&#8217; and match attendance&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":4878,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}